Chewie & Liberty eating some Teff in their enrichment hay balls Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family, friends, and pets! Chewie and Liberty both got some extra Teff hay on Christmas morning in their enrichment hay balls. They were both quite happy! (See my post from last week about their preference […]
I wrote earlier this month about some taste tests I have been doing with Chewie with different types of horse feed and hay pellets. (You can find that post here.) This week, we’ve been doing some taste tests with two types of hay. Chewie has been eating coastal Bermuda hay for most of the time […]
Recently, Chewie and I have been doing some training with a new platform. I’m hoping we can use this platform as a location for some veterinary training. It also will come in handy for horse agility and groundwork exercises. Chewie is awfully cute when she stands on the platform and looks at me with her ears […]
Sometimes, I wish I could ask Chewie, “What types of treats and foods do you like best? Do you have a favorite flavor of food?” When we are training, we often use hay pellets, alfalfa pellets, or a low-starch feed called Stabul 1. However, recently, I’ve been experimenting with several new types of hay pellets […]
Chewie has now been at the new barn for two months. She and her buddy Liberty have been living in the largest pasture on the property. They have room to roam and a run-in shelter to protect them from bad weather. There’s also plenty of room in the pasture for training! Chewie and Liberty. You […]
Over the weekend, I had the privilege of presenting as part of the R+ Horse Summit. It was a fun three-day event, all about positive reinforcement training for horses. Today, I want to share one of the video clips from my lecture. Chewie and I practice rasping one of her hooves When I adopted Chewie […]
